#earth-2

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The Justice Society

Art by Mike Becker

[cantsayidont]

February 1986. Incredibly bleak: Earth-2's Helena Wayne (The Huntress) and Dick Grayson (Robin) survived the cataclysmic events of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #10 (January 1986), only to find in the following issue that the world into which they awakened afterward had no record that they had ever existed. Both were then killed by falling debris during the final battle in CRISIS #12 and subsequently laid to rest by their JSA comrades, almost the only people on the reformed Earth who still remembered them. Earth-2's middle-aged Dick Grayson was a relatively minor character even before the Crisis, but the fate of the Huntress was a bitter pill, although at least she was spared the awful post-Crisis origin revamps of Power Girl and Fury (the daughter of Earth-2's Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor).

[vexic929]

thinking about E2 WestAllen again <3333

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

The Cyborg Superwoman, Secret Weapon of the World Army of Universalis Secundus, recreated from a Kryptonian Sunstone Total Mind Back-Up by Commander Amar Khan and General Sam Lane.

Her shell was a spare Red Tornado gynoid body that's since been scrapped and entirely replaced by K-Metals and pseudo-organics. Her new body both approximates Kryptonian abilities and allows for technopathic interfacing with non-sentient (and some sentient technologies).

Her early interactions with Earth-2's Superman Family were incredibly difficult. She found a surprising ally in another of the World Army's experimental attempts to create their own Kryptonian weapon, Paige Stetler aka Galatea, a clone of Power Girl.

As the barriers between universes begin to weaken under the endless assault of Anti-Matter Shadow Demons, Dark Matter Monsters, and the Knights of Sorrow, The Cyborg Superwoman would find herself face to face with the one person she could never truly confront on her own Earth: Lois Lane, her long deceased original self, alive and everything that her Earth-2 counterpart always wanted to be.

[cgbcomics]

[thatsnotmygunflash]

The ask went away because I'm dumb but @simpledontmeanpeachy asked for 2 and 25 and I went back and forth on if I'd do them together or separately but since my mind went in two different directions on settings I decided to do both. So, here's 2, set on Earth-2.

It's the third day of being stuck in the stuffy conference room with Mayor Snart going over the details of his metahuman algorithm when Barry finally snaps.

"What's your problem with me?"

Mayor Snart raised one perfectly calm eyebrow up at the sudden outburst, calculated eyes narrowing as he glanced up from the paragraph he was in the middle of highlighting.

"I don't have a problem with you, Allen."

"You do." Barry had been doing his best to ignore the obvious tension between them but he couldn’t for the life of him understand what he could have done to offend Mayor Snart. "You definitely do. I know you do, I just don't know why you do."

The sly smirk that slid onto Mayor Snart's face was not making Barry feel any better about this conversation, but he couldn't spend another week trapped in this room for hours at a time dealing with Mayor Snart’s icy indifference.

"Are you sure you want to do this? I know how easily your feelings get hurt."

"Hey!"

"Case in point," Barry did his best not to stare at the amused smile that his protest had spread across Mayor Snart's face. Was it weird to be that attracted to teeth? Probably, but God, did this man have a nice smile.

"I just want to know what I did, you very obviously don't like something about me." Barry shook himself to get his mind back on what was important.

"You're right." Snart confirmed easily, leaning back in his chair while tapping his highlighter against the stack of papers in front of him. "There is something I don't like."

"What?"

"You're too nice."

"Excuse me?" Barry huffed.

He couldn’t be serious.

"You're too nice. It's sickening."

"I'm...sorry?"

"You should be."

Barry narrowed his eyes, readjusting his glasses nervously as he fought not to squirm under the Mayor's intense gaze.

"...are you messing with me?"

Barry wouldn’t be surprised if he was, Mayor Snart seemed to enjoy doing that a lot.

"You know, Detective West warned me you were oblivious, and I'm really starting to think she was right."

When had his ex-wife talked to the Mayor?

"Oblivious to what?"

The delighted head shake and snort of laughter his question received was enough to make Barry bristle.

"The only problem I have with you, Barry Allen, is the fact that you're single."

That...was definitely not what he was expecting.

"You're...mad...I'm single."

"Yes."

"But why?" Barry asked in confusion.

"Really Barry, there isn't a single reason you can think of?"

"Not really."

"How about I give you a hint then," Mayor Snart snatched up his pen, scribbling something quickly on a loose sheet of paper before pushing it across the conference table towards Barry.

"What's this?"

"My private number."

[comfortfoodcontent]

The Justice Society of America by Mike Allred and Laura Allred

[djrenard]

All-Star Squadron:

A master list of the All-Star Squadron publishing initiative. Each group belongs to the larger overarching Squadron community. They share information, resources, and support...crimefighting or otherwise.

Justice Society: the classic multigenerational team

All-Stars: The premiere team; the big guns

Infinity Inc.: Young upstarts

Freedom Fighters: Golden Age teens fighting for the freedom of today's youth

Seven Soldiers of Victory: Armor, battles, and chilvary

[incognitomoustache]

Justice League of America vol.1 #30 (1964) 

( re-printed version from Crisis on Multiple Earths (2002) )

Losing it at how much this looks like Dinah seducing Super-Woman more than anything else.

[avatarskywalker78]

Formal OC Introductions - Teri Merlyn/Midnight Archer (Earth-2)

As most of my OCs on my Masterlists were added after the initial post, I'm going to be posting about the ones you might not've seen for the next couple weeks!

Teri Merlyn has gone through a number of upheavals throughout her life. She started life as Meg Morgan, a Glades street rat, before being adopted by the Merlyns and gaining not only parents but a little brother, later changing her first name to one that suits her better. And for years her life is pretty good. But when Rebecca dies of natural causes, this is the start of the most dramatic upheaval yet, as Teri finds out Thea Queen's true parentage and has a huge argument with her father about it before making the impulsive decision to go with her best friend Oliver on his trip - a trip that almost proves fatal for her and does prove fatal for Oliver after the Queen's Gambit suffers damage and sinks. After she and Robert wash up on Lian Yu, they spend five years battling to survive and uncover a number of secrets surrounding Starling City. As they plan their return they resolve to do what they can to help their home, but things have drastically changed in the interim - not only are Malcolm and Moira married, but Teri's reunion with her father is marred by the tragedy of Thea's death, which has devastated Malcolm and seems to have broken Tommy, even if no one else has quite realised this. As she and Robert become the Midnight Archer and the Green Arrow respectively, hated and feared by the general population despite their non-lethal methods, it becomes clear that they are going to have their work cut out for them, and while she is determined to save the city in both her day and night jobs, Teri finds herself wondering if she truly fits in here anymore...

Tagging (let me know if you want to be added or removed): @shrinkthisviolet @mischiefmanaged21 @ocappreciationtag @negative-speedforce

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Original Art - Superman Hand Colored Illustration (1985)

"The Secret Origin Of Superman"

Art by Wayne Boring

[cantsayidont]

September/October 1976. The 1970s revival of ALL-STAR COMICS briefly saw Keith Giffen in august company: providing breakdowns to be finished by the legendary Wally Wood. Here, they provide a stirring reintroduction for the Golden Age Clark Kent, now the middle-aged editor of the Metropolis Daily Star, but not yet too old to declare:

[vexic929]

everything about every Barry screams neurodivergent but in particular the way E2 Barry holds his hands

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

Quick (heh) Jay Garrick sketch from work the other night I colored

I'm not sure how I'll work it in, but as far as stuff I continue to cherry pick from the CW canon, I'm sort of fascinated by the implication of Earth-2's "War of the Americas" that plays into the Zolomon family's generational trauma. Paired with the pre-crisis Independent Quebec and E-2's Atlantis being a surface island, I feel like there's a lot of geopolitical ramifications to explore with a Marshal Law-style metahuman involved land war in Central America.

Anyway, Jay's not involved any of that, he's a pacifist and the World Army can manage without him.

[alternateworldcomics]

From Justice Society of America # 166, Dec. 1972.

[jlaclassified]

https://transatlantis.net/2020/08/01/the-omniversal-method/

Omniverse #1 cover by Peter Poplaski